Winter doesn't even start till tomorrow, officially, and I'm already suffering a double dose of PMS (Parked Multi-rotor syndrome and Parked Motorcycle Syndrome). Daily high temperatures are barely making it to the mid -teens (Celsius) and the only time I seem to get out is to clear snow from the driveway. 
Actually, for the lsat few weeks I've been getting out to a local schllo auditorium with the local RC Modelling Club to do some indoor flying. While it's nice to get Sparky air-born, it does not present a huge challenge. Flying my toy drone, which can do a few acrobatic maneuvers, is almost more fun. But you can only do so many flips before that starts to get old too.
Then I saw these things:
The three teardrop shaped items are sensors that talk to an app on your phone via bluetooth, and the round item is a IR transmiiter that you attach to your drone, or whatever. The idea is to set up a course, on the ground, with the three sensors as waypoints. With the transmitter on the drone activated you can time yourself around the course via the App on the phone. Good practice for precision flying maybe? Compete with others even? Anybody out there familiar with these things?
Link to the manufacturer's web site: Makkerplay sensor - gamify your world
And here's the Youtube video where I first saw them. What do you think?
Actually, for the lsat few weeks I've been getting out to a local schllo auditorium with the local RC Modelling Club to do some indoor flying. While it's nice to get Sparky air-born, it does not present a huge challenge. Flying my toy drone, which can do a few acrobatic maneuvers, is almost more fun. But you can only do so many flips before that starts to get old too.
Then I saw these things:
The three teardrop shaped items are sensors that talk to an app on your phone via bluetooth, and the round item is a IR transmiiter that you attach to your drone, or whatever. The idea is to set up a course, on the ground, with the three sensors as waypoints. With the transmitter on the drone activated you can time yourself around the course via the App on the phone. Good practice for precision flying maybe? Compete with others even? Anybody out there familiar with these things?
Link to the manufacturer's web site: Makkerplay sensor - gamify your world
And here's the Youtube video where I first saw them. What do you think?
